The 1994 National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in

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, home of the

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, on January 22, 1994.

Super Skills Competition

The Western Conference would win the Skills Competition for the second straight season. In the individual events

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won the Hardest Shot event for the second straight season, while both

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and

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would share the Goaltenders Competition victory. In addition, the Puck Control Relay event would be introduced as part of the individual competition with its first winner being

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Individual Event winners

* Puck Control Relay –

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) * Fastest Skater –

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(

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) – 13.525 seconds * Accuracy Shooting -

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(

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) – 4 hits, 5 shots * Hardest Shot –

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) – 102.7 mph * Goaltenders Competition –

(

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) – 4 GA, 16 shots

The game

A capacity crowd saw

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' rookie

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score with 3:42 left in the third period, to give the Eastern Conference a 9–8 victory. The Western Conference were leading 8–6 in the third period, until

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' centre

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scored his first All-Star Game goal to cut the lead to 8–7.

' centre

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then scored with 6:01 left to tie the game at 8–8, before Yashin would score the eventual game-winner.

' goaltender

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was named All-Star MVP after he saved 19 of 21 shots in the second period, including three saves on breakaways by sniper

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. Kudelski was added onto the Eastern Conference lineup due to injuries to

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, who along with

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were the highest-profile players among the several players on the rosters who were unable to play due to injury. (

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was the only injured player who played in this game.) Other first time All-Stars in New York included all three Western Conference goaltenders—the

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(who started in place of Ed Belfour), the

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' Arturs Irbe and the Blues'

(the game's losing goaltender, who gave up the winning goal in the third period). This was the most recent All-Star Game in which the head coaches were also the head coaches of the defending conference champions (

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was the Western Conference's head coach and

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was the Eastern Conference's head coach).

Uniforms

The 1994 All-Star Game saw the most radical departure from All-Star uniform design since the star-laden 1982 All-Star Game uniforms. The NHL retired the use of its league colors of black and orange, and had the uniforms designed based on the new Eastern and Western Conference logos. Both uniforms featured a giant star-based pattern across the entirety of the uniform, utilizing a dye-sublimation process that had been piloted in the

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. The Eastern team's jersey featured a teal star pattern over a white base, while the Western team wore purple over a black base. Silver trim (along with the reverse of the base color) separated the star pattern from the base. The respective conference logos appeared on the front, replacing the NHL shield. The NHL All-Star shield, an orange version of the NHL logo with five black sticks forming the outline of a white star, had been worn on the left shoulder of the uniform since

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. The patch was retired for this game, replaced with a patch featuring each player's individual team logo. This uniform design would continue to be used through the 1997 All-Star Game, with one minor change - the names and sleeve numbers on the Eastern jerseys would be changed from black to white. These uniforms would also provide the inspiration for the

to redesign their uniforms later in the decade, introducing their green version as a

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and adding a white version in

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Summary

*Referee: Bill McCreary *Linesmen:

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, Pat Dapuzzo *Television:

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, CBC

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National Anthem

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